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Yegeubayev & Partners advised on settlement between Stati Parties and the government of Kazakhstan

On 19th December was the 11th anniversary since the Stockholm Arbitration Court Award on the case of Stati vs the Republic of Kazakhstan was made.

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Government of Kazakhstan, national bank of Kazakhstan and Stati parties completed the dispute resolution process

The Government of the Republic of Kazakstan, the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the Stati parties, with the support and approval of leading Tristan Oil creditors, have successfully completed the process of resolving a long running dispute over oil and gas assets in Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan, Stati settle after protracted legal dispute

The government of Kazakhstan and Moldovan businessman Anatolie Stati have ended a lengthy legal battle that at one point saw the assets of the Kazakh sovereign fund frozen in the West, the justice ministry said on Tuesday.

Death of president corrupted by oil

Debra Laprevott as FBI Special Agent in 1998 was investigating case related to extortion schemes by Nigerian President Sani Abacha.

President of NRGI on contracts’ transparency

Suneeta Kaimal, President and CEO of Natural Resources Governance Institute stated during International Anticorruption Governance Institute in Washington D.C., USA that mandatory disclosure of subsoil use contracts is promoted as a global rule around the world.

Asset recovery confiscation procedures by US Department of Justice

Discussing with Mary Butler, Chief of International Unit at Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section of US Department of Justice, how US Government returns dirty money to various countries of origin.

Balance between transparency and private interests

Do we have to choose comfort in balance between legal interests of transparency and private capital? This is the question I asked Peter Maurer, President of Basel Institute of Governance.

Return of £829,500 to Republic of Mozambique confirmed

Jersey's Attorney General and the Vice-Attorney General of Mozambique have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to return over £829,500 to the Republic of Mozambique.

Press Release: OpenSecrets director of operations advances transparency in Kazakhstan

In a groundbreaking initiative, OpenSecrets Director of Operations Greg Schneider traveled to Kazakhstan in November 2023 to collaborate with Community Exchange Program fellow Nazerke Batyrbek.

The Head of State signed the Law «On the return of illegally acquired assets to the state»

In accordance with the norms of the law, the return mechanisms will be applied to those implicated in large-scale corruption and oligopoly groups that have colluded with persons who have administrative and authoritative resources (connections, influence).

United States Repatriates Over $20 Million in Assets Stolen by Former Nigerian Dictator

The Department of Justice announced today that it has transferred over $20.6 million to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria) in accordance with an Aug. 23 agreement between the governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to the kleptocracy of former Nigerian Dictator General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators.